linkspam is back in the zone
I found a cool resource today: Identity Blog. Among other things, it gave me this great post about a European student who is walloping Facebook with legal complaints about their privacy problems. Pretty awesome.
Speaking of identity issues, there's some association between Anonymous and OWS, but it's pretty limited.
Awesome: Superhero millionaires respond to OWS. Hah.
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It's Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Don't you think Lady Bubbles deserves a home? Look at that face!
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Sad news by way of Genreville: Suzette Haden Elgin is unable to return to blogging or writing. Fucking Alzheimers.
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Girls With Slingshots today just nails it. Heh.
Here's an old piece from The Believer in 2006: a history of D&D. Damn, it was first published in 1974, and I was playing it by 1979 or so... that's pretty fast. The great thing about old-fashioned, paper-and-pencil D&D was that it straddled the virtual world and the real one: when the game was over, the dungeons and dragons went back to their notebooks, but you got to keep your friends.
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From last week: an overview of what The New Deal actually accomplished. The WPA produced, among many other projects, 1,000 miles of new and rebuilt airport runways, 651,000 miles of highway, 124,000 bridges, 8,000 parks, and 18,000 playgrounds and athletic fields; some 84,000 miles of drainage pipes, 69,000 highway light standards, and 125,000 public buildings built, rebuilt, or expanded. Among the latter were 41,300 schools.
Baby Meerkats! So cute!
Finally, Fast Company on learning from failure, a case study with Twyla Tharp.
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In other news, apparently my hindbrain has remember that I used to write. Yay.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Speaking of identity issues, there's some association between Anonymous and OWS, but it's pretty limited.
Awesome: Superhero millionaires respond to OWS. Hah.
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It's Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Don't you think Lady Bubbles deserves a home? Look at that face!
*
Sad news by way of Genreville: Suzette Haden Elgin is unable to return to blogging or writing. Fucking Alzheimers.
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Girls With Slingshots today just nails it. Heh.
Here's an old piece from The Believer in 2006: a history of D&D. Damn, it was first published in 1974, and I was playing it by 1979 or so... that's pretty fast. The great thing about old-fashioned, paper-and-pencil D&D was that it straddled the virtual world and the real one: when the game was over, the dungeons and dragons went back to their notebooks, but you got to keep your friends.
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From last week: an overview of what The New Deal actually accomplished. The WPA produced, among many other projects, 1,000 miles of new and rebuilt airport runways, 651,000 miles of highway, 124,000 bridges, 8,000 parks, and 18,000 playgrounds and athletic fields; some 84,000 miles of drainage pipes, 69,000 highway light standards, and 125,000 public buildings built, rebuilt, or expanded. Among the latter were 41,300 schools.
Baby Meerkats! So cute!
Finally, Fast Company on learning from failure, a case study with Twyla Tharp.
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In other news, apparently my hindbrain has remember that I used to write. Yay.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.